Underware — Amsterdam, Netherlands / Helsinki, Finland
“The inspiration for Y lies in a little essay we wrote titled From Typography To Grammatography. The story begins with three letters visiting a bar. One of the letters is called Y, and is changing its form continuously.
Zealotry wouldn’t be an inappropriate collective noun for Underware, who claim that they not only design typefaces, they live type—they educate about type, they publish about type, they talk about type, they want (and organise) others to talk about type.